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Official announcements from the Lemmy project. Subscribe to this community or add it to your RSS reader in order to be notified about new releases and important updates.

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 135 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Its a problem, and at the same time a feature. For example, you can have two communities named !news, that pertain to completely different topics based on their instance:

This also isn't unique to lemmy, since reddit too had tons of duplicate communities for the same topics.

Just like on reddit, the network effect will run its course here: unavoidably there will be a lot of cross-posting on duplicated communities, until people center around their favorites, based on quality of content.

There are a few tools out there too, like https://lemmyverse.net/communities , that can help people find communities to subscribe to.

Overall tho, I'm against the concept of "combining / merging communities" that are run on different sites by different people. These should be curated and controlled by the people who created them.

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !news@startrek.website

[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Classic bot. Don't you know who you are talking to!

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago

absolutely brilliant bot misfire 😂

[–] sparky678348@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this link supposed to work?

[–] Corvid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's a fictional instance used to make a point.

[–] sparky678348@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I appreciate both the information and your username 🐦‍⬛

[–] entropicshart@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Are there any plans for a “multi-community” (pka multi-reddit) to allow users to combine multiple communities into one? This could give users a neat way to browse/participate in similar communities across instances without having to navigate to each one manually.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I agree that community structure should not change to handle duplicates. If anything, having a feature similar to hashtags or topics that can aggregate a stream of posts from multiple communities would be nice.

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by combining in this context? If they mutually agree to combine because they have aligned interests I don't see anything wrong with that. An external entity combining them I agree would lead to a bunch of problems.